Update on His Harperness
A little birdie just reminded me that maybe the reason why Stephen Harper and his New Conservative Government of Canada is playing "Quit Crying Or I'll Give You Something To Cry About" with the Liberal Opposition regarding the very notion of a judicial inquiry into Mulroneyfoneymoneygate is that back in the good ol' timey days of yore, Elmer Mackay, pappy of Peter Mackay, Minister of Foreign (and domestic) Affairs, was one of two (the other was Marc Lalonde - yes - THAT Marc Lalonde) baileroutters of Karlheinz Schreiber.
NOT that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Anyway, I'd forgotten all about Elmer Mackay so I did a Wiki:
MacKay resigned his parliamentary seat in 1983 in order to allow newly elected PC leader Brian Mulroney to enter Parliament through a by-election in MacKay's Nova Scotia riding. In the subsequent 1984 election, Mulroney moved to a Quebec riding, and MacKay was again returned to the House as Central Nova's MP.Following the election, Mulroney became prime minister, and appointed MacKay to the Canadian Cabinet where he served as Solicitor General of Canada for a year before becoming Minister of National Revenue. In 1989, MacKay became Minister of Public Works. From 1989 to 1991, he was also responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Act. While the parliamentary opposition often accused MacKay of doling out patronage, no wrongdoing was ever proven. He was removed from the ACOA portfolio in 1991. From 1991 to 1993, he remained Public Works minister and was given responsibility for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
MacKay retired from Cabinet when Mulroney's tenure as party leader ended in 1993, and did not run in the 1993 election.
Gawd. Wouldn't it be a pure Mulroneyrony if the Old Whore brings down His Harperness?
